52 FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



This shows that the quantity of lumber imported into Germany exceeds 

 by about 21,000,000 of double centners (= 100 kilograms or 2.2 centners 

 English) the amount exported. 



a. Lumber, and timber worked or hewn with an axe roughly, but not 

 sawed in the direction of the longitudinal axis, was imported chiefly from — 



100 kilograms. 



Austria- Hungary SiO^St^SS 



Russia • 11,014,500 



Sweden, "7,409 



United States "0,756 



Netherlands 73.SI3 



Norway 56,958 



Mexico and Central America 40,528 



France 37,919 



Switzerland , 34,484 



Great Britain 19,609 



Belgium I5,7I4 



Denmark 12,295 



b. Of lumber and timber, hewn with axe and sawed in the direction of the 

 longitudinal axis, there were imported largest amounts from — 



100 kilograms. 



Russia 2,891,422 



Austria-Hungary 2,770,108 



Sweden 2,366,981 



Norway 492,687 



United States 104,297 



Switzerland 69,506 



Netherlands 68,975 



Belgium 50,383 



France 14,395 



TRADE IN LUMBER. 



As stated before, Russia is at the present time the principal dealer in 

 lumber. Russian Poland, provided with excellent water courses for floating 

 wood, formerly furnished large quantities of wood and lumber, but it now 

 appears that Poland has exhausted its stock and furnishes very inferior quali- 

 ties (for instance, lathes and wall plates), which, on account of the higher 

 rates of duty, (Amended Tariff" Act of May 22, 1885,) is no longer profitable 

 to import. 



Other parts of Russia still furnish excellent woods, particularly heavy oak, 

 but the facilities of transportation are so limited that no favorable results for 

 importation are anticipated. Some Berlin importers bought, about a year ago, 

 some extensive forests in a distant part of Russia, but the result of their enter- 

 prise is not known to me. 



Wood from the royal forests of Prussia commands a high price. The 

 quantity permitted to be sold does not approximately meet the demand. 

 Many establishments, dspendent upon a supply of particular classes of wood 

 for manufacturing purposes, complain, and, unable to obtain the required 



